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11/1/2014,

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New Hunter skill Arrow RainHunter pets gain alot more expDark text has been redoneGunslinger ammo prices tweaked. Wind skill duration decreasedswordsman cannot dash with cowWorld Map found on top menu shows you where you are on the map.

SHOVELS 5 new shovels to aid your treasure hunting needs. Rare Shovel Item used to dig for treasure. Works best when you have a treasure map.Digs 2 tiles in front of you. [Drop] Gold Shovel Item used to dig for treasure. Works best when you have a treasure map.Digs 3 tiles infront of you. [Blood Coins Store] Luck Shovel Item used to dig for treasure. Works best when you have a treasure map.Digs right under you, Increases chances of finding treasure .[Plunder] Beam Shovel Item used to dig for treasure. Works best when you have a treasure map.Digs 4 tiles infront of you, Large delay .[Rank 3 quest Dead Man Shovel Item used to dig for treasure. Works best when you have a treasure map.Digs 2 tiles around you. Large delay [rank 5 quest]

Emerald Sea Shuttle is now sailing.For traveling the seas without the fears that lay within them! For a small escudo fee you can hop on the Emerald Sea Shuttle and be chofered through all the emerald islands!Come now come all!

The shuttle arrives at a new island every 2 minutes. If it is at your island find and enter through the port. After paying the fee wait patiently inside the shuttle for it to set sail again. It will give you updates to its location and actions while in it, or near it. Walk out to get out. The grass is the safezone.

Weapon Overlay System has had some changes.-Weapon overlay are no longer level based-weapon overlays are chosen at random when equipped from a list of default overlays-Weapon skin system has been implemented, you are now able to change your weapon's skin with weapon skin items.

Doubloon Store. Currently the only way to get weapon skins. Doubloons are obtained with real life money through the game. To access this press the Doubloon menu and Open the store. Attempt to purchase anything while your balance is below its cost and it will give you the option to buy doubloons, once on the website type your key (Make sure its correct) and follow the payment process the system checks for new purchases every minute so give it so time to get to you.

Shift click the weapon skins within the shop to preview the skin. It will flash on your character for a small ammount of time ;D

Ice-Ice Ball no longer stunsSwordsmen-Mikadzuki now has a grab effect, teleporting the user to the victimWax-Wax Clone- Creates a clone of yourself to deceive others-Wax Barrel- Creates a barrel infront of the user to be used as an obstacle for others. Low cooldown, build stuff..-Wax tweak Wax slap has been chained to a "Rain" skill, the fist will rain in the users direction.Hunter-Hunter Tweak: Arrow rain damage lowered, duration of arrow raining increasedGunslinger-New Skill Eagle Eye (previous eagle eye renamed) The user assumes a sniping stance, Focusing his eyes Allowing him to shoot very far(WSAD to move cross hair use the Shoot skill to fire)-Previous eagle eye renamed to Shoot.Fixes-Drowning with cow drops cow-Hammer fix-Triident fix-Priest can remove all ailments (stuns,snares, etc) in an instant now -Other things i cant remember.

Equips-Unique and Rare rarity have been buffed-Max Stat reqs for equips loweredClasses-Bone Titaniaboa damage reduced heavily, health buffed to 2x owner's-Flame Martial Arts has 30% chance to reset cooldown on Flame Bolt to chain and combo.-Hammer weapon damage buff-Bishop Abrupt sweep is now an AOE -Bishop combo: Everytime a bishop attacks with any weapon he has a 20% chance to reset cooldown on Abrupt sweep-All bishop skills can be used with any weapon-If a bishop blocks successfully, he has a 30% chance to proc Devout Sacrifice on himself ignoring cooldowns.-Priest beacon changes: --Beacon now heals all allies who click on the priest. Including the priest himself. Making him a beacon of life. Heals on bishops are slightly higher.EventCTC map changes. (Not sure i like this new map.. may change again)Critical chance against cow holders increased by 15%

Snowball event Map change, for more of that elimination fear rather then a spam snowball fest.CTC Map Change Made abit less, DINGY ABUSIVE Center Feature, There is a flag you can contest over in the center of the map the team that owns this flag will be able to warp to it from a point within their spawnClass Dual Swordsman damage Buff

WARNINGS: The server is having some network issues they claim will be corrected as soon as possible, this means you may lose connection to the server and be logged off. You will not be rolled back due to this but it will be an aggravating experience. We at ROTP would like to apologize for this and ask you to please bear with us.

*Black SeaIf you have been to the swamp in black seas you may have noticed some turfs shaped like numbers. Run through all 5 within 1 minute and open a map to the lost jungle. the map will remain open for all to enter for 2 minutes. The mobs in the lost jungle are not "Black Sea" boss mobs. They are high level normal mobs to aid your farming needs. T-Rex in the map jungle drop 2 rare mounts Collect them!*ItemGold Spyglass rare drop all mobs "Use this item to find New islands within emerald sea. Use: Once used sail through emerald sea and encounter a new Island. 1 person only. No large vessels."

*Hidden Islands^ Only 1 lost island at this moment Craken Island Lv 500,510,520,530,540,550,560,570 and 580 mobs are here.

Summon Ariala(Aqua Summoner) Level:300Delay:7Endurance:2000Description:Miriana is the powerful mermaid charmer. Miriana will charm all enemies within view with her siren song slowing them down (2%chance to stun).

Snahrling: the fire breath CD doesnt seem to be longer or short then before all mobs in black sea got nerfed the damage is the same and the CD between breaths is still around 10seconds (like before) now i will only assume that once this mob is under 30% it will firebreath like crazy making it impossible to kill

Bargoran: the only problem with this mob would be its Earth cage CD time, it happens to use a Earth cage then 15seconds later use another one making two cages limiting your space movments now the cages last a longtime and by the time u break one wall of that earth, you have 3 to 4 cages on you i feel like the cage should have a different CD on bargoran to players Earth Text making this mobs CD for earth cage around 1min would mean that once the cage is gone it has roughly 5 to 10seconds before using it again (before rage mode where it should cage like crazy)

Rotz Rooks: Blind CD in rage mode... now for anyone whos has tried to melee rotz rooks in rage mode will understand the rage of the perma blind, the blind CD should be higher in rage mode or make it so he blinds has CD then sleeps has another CD then blinds again and so on, the pushback spam+perm blind makes it hard for people to kill the mob < it should have one or the other not both imo

Mujinn: the fire breath CD doesnt seem to be longer or short then before all mobs in black sea got nerfed the damage is the same and the CD between breaths is still around 10seconds (like before) now i will only assume that once this mob is under 30% it will firebreath and pushback like crazy making it impossible to kill <-- it should have one or the other not both imo

Chronoshift(Time) Level:600Delay:180Endurance:1000Description:Places Chronoshift on an ally.If the person affected by this buff dies within 20 seconds this person will return to the health he had when the buff was placed

Synopsis-Lycans are now able to become the neutral classes (Swordsman/Hunter/Gunner etc.) -New Lycan Classes in the works ( I will try to get 1 or 2 done this weekend please test how they work with the neutral classes in the mean time.)-Lycan transformations now drain endurance over time-Becoming one of the lycan classes removes the drains. [To lower drain kill mobs in that transformation to gain mastery over it]-Lycan Transformations now take equipment into account-Lycans can now use weapons and transform with them.-All Lycan Transformations can swim. (WE ARENT CATS RAVANOK WE ARE WOLVES.)-Lycans no longer have traits, (Their forms is their trait, Toggle through with S, Macro "Embrace" or Click the hud to take form.) Transformations -With armor a set base stats + armor+ 10-30% depending on transformation -Without armor, Raises all base stats by abit. (Nerfed) Transformation Effects These Effects that take place apon transforming Wolf- heals all allys within 2 tiles (Amount users half of users will) Hybrid- grants a huge speed boost for 2 seconds Lycan - Slows down everyone within 1 tile of you for 1 second

Damage -Wolf = Spirit -Lycan/Human = Str -Hybrid= AgilOther things!-You are able to trade in your bound exp scrolls for gold by using them, if they have more then 3 minutes on them and you are caped.-A few other changes to some systems, so please continue to report any thing-Dagon I have not forgotten about you, Dagon increase Endurance regen while in water

Excuse my spelling it should be worst then usual, as there was quiet alot of jack daniels in my coffee.

Nerf wolf lycan transformation heal Lycan transformation drain increased to 212.5 a second up from 150 a secondLycan Normal attack multiplier nerf Lycan from x1.5 str to 1.3 Hybrid from x1.3 agi to 1.15 Wolf from x1.35 spi to 1 Human stays the same (Weapon multi)This should balance them during the other classes.Few bug fixes

Changes-Rewards in Blood coin shop have been made BOE (Bind on equip) so you can trade them if you don't like the one you got.-Lowered the necklace price from 15000 BC, to 9500 BC-Elite items crafted now have the name of the maker

as the game further hones in on balancing all classes, it has made crit/dodge stand out even more, being the key decider in many fights, due to the mechanics of probability based dmg increase and negation, the end result is often a matter of luck instead of skill, ultimately leaving the fighters with thoughts such as "did I really even win that fight?" or "how the hell did I just lose that?" because one person may receive the divine blessing of the rotp gods, and trigger dodge +10 times on their opponent, while landing criticals, making it not even a fight anymore.

in example, if you have 19% critical stat, then you have a 19% chance to increase the damage, by 19%. the probability is the amount, instead of a constant static 50% damage boost. again for dodge, say 24% dodge stat would obviously be 24% chance to decrease the receiving damage by 24%. with that, no more will your strongest and highest c/d tech be completely rendered useless due to probability.